
Sure to have great appeal for Civil War enthusiasts, reenactors, and readers of Noah Andre Trudeau's Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea as well as the scholarship of Shelby Foote or James M. McPherson, who became the first and only U.S. Confederates repeatedly attacked Union soldiers commanded by General James B. The battle was a monstrous affair fought in the stifling Georgia summer heat, pitting two armies of equal size against one another for eight hours. The only book dedicated to the day-long Battle of Atlanta, the most decisive battle in the most decisive campaign of the Civil War The Battle of Atlanta, fought on July 22, 1864, pointed the Union to victory in the Atlanta Campaign, changed the course of the Civil War, and was the most important factor in President Lincoln's successful re-election bid against General McClellan's anti-war platform.
